Question

n a large bag of Skittles®, each of the 5 colors (red, orange, yellow, blue, green) occurs with the same probability. You reach in and select 1 candy.

Find P(a color on a bumblebee).

Answer 1

haha a bumblebee is black and yellow....so in other words find P(yellow)

Answer 2

Okay, so find yellow. But how?

Answer 3

how many possible colors are there?

Answer 4

\[\begin{array}l\color{red}{\normalsize\text{b}}\color{orange}{\normalsize\text{u}}\color{#9c9a2e}{\normalsize\text{m}}\color{green}{\normalsize\text{b}}\color{blue}{\normalsize\text{l}}\color{purple}{\normalsize\text{e}}\color{purple}{\normalsize\text{b}}\color{red}{\normalsize\text{e}}\color{orange}{\normalsize\text{e}}\color{#9c9a2e}{\normalsize\text{!}}\color{green}{\normalsize\text{!}}\color{blue}{\normalsize\text{!}}\color{purple}{\normalsize\text{!}}\color{purple}{\normalsize\text{}}\end{array}\]

Answer 5

5 including yellow
4 not including yellow

Answer 6

good, so you are looking for 1 color out of 5 --> P = 1/5
this works because they all have equal chance of being picked

Answer 7

So the answer is 1/5!

Answer 8

yep its that easy :)

Answer 9

Thanks!